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Karen Read murder trial ends in mistrial as jury fails to agree whether she deliberately killed Boston cop boyfriend with SUV

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By Will Potter

Published: 19:52 BST, 1 July 2024 | Updated: 19:56 BST, 1 July 2024

The high-profile murder trial of a Boston woman accused of murdering her police officer boyfriend has ended with a mistrial.

Karen Read, 44, was told Monday that jurors were unable to agree on whether she'd deliberately killed Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe with her SUV in January 2022.

Read could still face a retrial, following a contentious nine-week trial where she alleged that she was the victim of a wide-ranging plot to frame her. 

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Karen Read at her final pretrial hearing on April 12 at Norfolk Superior Court

John O'Keefe, 46, was found dead 6am on January 29, 2022, outside a house where Read dropped him off for an afterparty about 12.45am

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